Academic positions

2021-

Associate Professor (tenured) at Utrecht School of Economics, Section Entrepreneurship, Sustainable Finance Lab (SFL) and European Centre for Alternative Finance (ECAF)

2017-2021

Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at Utrecht School of Economics, Section Entrepreneurship, Sustainable Finance Lab (SFL) and European Centre for Alternative Finance (ECAF)

2015-2017

Post-doctoral researcher at Utrecht School of Economics, Sustainable Finance Lab (SFL), European Centre for Alternative Finance (ECAF) and Chair for Strategy, Organisation and Entrepreneurship

2011-2015

Research assistant at the Sustainable Business Institute (SBI) Research projects: 'Climate Change, Financial Markets & Innovation' (CFI)

2009-2010

Student assistant at the Max-Planck-Institute of Economics 'Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy Group'

Academic education

2012-2015

Dr. rer. pol. (equiv. PhD) summa cum laude at EBS Business School, Strascheg Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SIIE), PhD thesis: Addressing barriers to low-carbon innovation – Essays on structures and policies to mobilise private finance.

2013

Visiting Researcher / PhD Student at SPRU – Science Policy Research Unit (University of Sussex, UK) 'TAGS' Program

2006-2011

 MSc (Diplom-Kaufmann) with honours, Business Administration/ Intercultural Management at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Diploma thesis 'Stakeholder management in social ventures' (Max-Planck-Institute of Economics and TU Munich), Visiting student at University of Economics Bratislava/Slovakia